Chapter 35 – Digging a Hole in the Middle of the Night

Su Yan heart dark winced, snorted: “Jokes jokes scouting Lang nature high and pure, such as clouds in the blue sky water in the bottle, who can you mistake you for a murderer? Besides, I myself now this situation, will be detained in the East Garden, presumably the Royal Master that end is still suspected of ice not pam, which have the heart to find what murderer.”

Then you have the heart to find Badger. Cloudwash said wordlessly.

“–What is Inspector Yun talking about?”

“Undust. That’s my epithet, you may call it that, no need for a mouthful of tantrums.”

Since he said so, Su Yan will no longer be polite, after all, this “flower” although better than the top of the list, but called called, always remind him of the Little Li Feidao, a little skewer ……

“Brother Undust said something earlier, I didn’t hear it.”

“I said that I was born with the idea of apprehending the murderer, and I wonder if Qinghe would like to accompany me.”

Su Yan a little surprised, but then thought, but also reasonable. House arrest in a secluded area, I do not know when I can see the sun, cloud wash face look cool as usual, the heart may not be tight, rather than waiting for someone to investigate the case, as well as their own case broken, that is the bottom of the paycheck.

His mind turned several times and he asked, “Did Brother Undust find something?”

“It’s too early to tell.”

Meaning, there is a discovery, but not sure yet? Su Yan was still speculating when Yun Wash opened the door to the room and greeted him in a low voice, “Follow me.”

He crossed half the corridor, turned the corner of the hall, and dashed into a room door. Su Yan followed close behind, realizing that this was Cui Jinping’s room, the only room he hadn’t searched yet.

Closing the door of the room, Su Yan turned around to see Yun Wash standing in the center of the room, looking around, rusty from posture to sight, and couldn’t help but laugh, “This kind of cock-and-bull thing, it’s better for me to do it.”

He searched the rooms as he had done those before, methodically and without oversight, and found nothing fishy.

“Nothing was found. Brother Undust might as well tell us what has been found, could it be related to Ping Shan?”

Yun Wash did not say anything, searching for something around the bed and couch. Su Yan walked over and leaned down close to the ground, and in the darkness at the bottom of the bed against the wall, he vaguely saw the shadow of a pair of soap boots.

“Ooh, there’s a pair of shoes. This black in black, almost didn’t see it.” Su Yan said, trying to find a long object to dial, a moment did not find, simply sleeve rolled up, half of the body into the bottom of the bed.

Yun Wash was too late to stop, reaching out to run a handful of sleeve tails. Su readers only remaining waist and legs exposed outside the bed frame, the image of a flirtatious genius is completely gone, he looked at but the corner of his mouth slightly raised.

Su Yan hooked his fingers around the edges of his boots and yanked them out, getting up and patting the dust on his tunic, he smiled blushingly at Yun Wash, “The demeanor is all gone, letting Brother Widan see you laugh.”

He was about to pick up his soap boots and inspect them when Yun Wash said, “Wait–“

He said raising his hand and gently wiping the dust off the tip of his nose with his cuff.

Su Yan saw the cloud washed the plain white sleeve more than a little stain, although only a small point, but because the other side is too clean, look at the particularly abrupt and eye-catching, heart is more overjoyed: “not the dust brother like clean, why for me to stain the sleeve, only need to inform a word, I wipe myself will be good.”

Broken all broken, still afraid of dirt it …… cloud wash silently.

“These are the boots Scholar Cui wore yesterday.” He said in a deep voice.

Su Yan looked back and forth, and then looked at the concave and convex lines on the soles of the boots, and found that there was a lot of black mud, which was mixed with fragments of grass and leaves. Fingertips lightly crushed, black mud is still a little wet, broken leaves are also fresh.

“This mud is rotten mud, the forest damp place only. Shooting willow field on the green stone pavement, the palace road and the temple is not stained soil. Besides, yesterday’s daytime mud, to the eye should have dried up is …… last night and no rain, Ping Shan this is where to go wandering?”

Yun Wash slowly said, “Last night, late at night, there was some movement in this hall.”

Su Yan sniffed with a weak heart.

Last night, he came and went in his house, it was almost like a walking light, could it be that Yun Wash really heard the commotion?

But he was half a hall away from his room, so he shouldn’t be able to hear, right?

“I woke up in the middle of the night and heard the sound of traveling pattering on the path in the courtyard outside my window, and when I was suspicious I got up and went out, trailing behind.”

“Is it Cui Jinping?” Su Yan asked.

Yun Zai nodded, ”I followed him into the forest near the root of the south wall, and saw him digging a pit with the trowel used by the palace people to take care of the flowers and trees, burying a packet of objects, and then hastily filling the pit, sprinkling a few handfuls of fallen leaves, and then returning to the same way. At that time I felt strange, when he left, I wanted to dig open the pit to see. But first, he took the flower shovel away, rotting mud and leaves, I can not dig with bare hands; Secondly, if he is just dealing with personal filth, or have any strange habits, like to hide money and so on, I go to trespass, in the rite of passage is not appropriate. Therefore, I also turned back, back to the house to sleep. Early this morning, then the boots were handed over to the palace people to take to clean.”

“I understand why you suddenly suspected him again today.” Su Yan placed the soap boots back on the floor, “It is precisely because of this pair of boots that were not cleaned. If he didn’t have a ghost in his heart, he should have similarly handed the boots over to the palace staff this morning, but he didn’t, instead, he hid them under the bed and caused someone to go get a new pair of boots to wear.”

“So I have to wonder, what was it that he dug a pit and buried last night?” Yun Wash lowered his eyes to look at his boots, a slight frown between his brows, as if he wasn’t happy about the suspicions in his mind either.

Su Yan suddenly said, “It’s almost time!” He leaned over and threw the soap boots into the bottom of the bed against the wall again, and said to Yun Wash, “Let’s get going and continue this in another place.”

The two of them took a final look around to make sure that the objects and furnishings were all back to their original state, then they left Cui Jinping’s house and closed the door.

Walking on the corridor in a bit of a hurry, Su Yan’s ankle, which had not been completely healed, accidentally twisted again, and he grimaced in pain. He held his hand on the corridor pillar, wanting to wait for the pain to pass. Yun Zai did not see him follow, looked back, turned back and asked, “Did you hurt your foot?”

Su Yan waved his hand repeatedly and said it was fine.

Yun Wash was about to reach out to help him when Cui Jin Ping’s figure appeared around the corner, slightly drunk.

Seeing them, Cui Jinping was a bit surprised and asked, “Why are you two here?”

Su Yan endured the pain and laughed: “I would have liked to come to find you hand to talk, I do not know that you have not returned to the room, but to twist their own feet. He …… he may be walking through it.”

Yun wash by the lonely cold, is ice carved snow a human form, let alone expect him to open his mouth to explain.

Cui Jinping looked at him with a bit of suspicion and repulsion. Yun Wash did not respond and walked away.

Cui Jinping turned his head to look at Su Yan again and teased, “I say Brother Qinghe, you and him, one ‘pulling the building from the brink of collapse’ and the other ‘nothing in Jiangnan, a gift of a soup dumpling’, wouldn’t you be looking at each other with eyes on each other and planning to do something in this crowded You’re not looking at each other and planning to do something in this corridor where people come and go, are you?”

Su Yan spat at him, “Do what? What can two big men do!”

Cui Jinping laughed loudly: “You are a person who is used to knowing about the wind and moon, but you come to ask me. Two days ago I went to Rouge Hutong to drink, that famous prostitute Ruan Hong Banana does not properly serve the Golden Scholar, but a mind to pester me to ask, the same list of the seventh of the two A did what a big official, why did not come to it!”

Su Yan also laughed: “I can only recognize it, but not do it. Daming law where the official hosts a prostitute who can be sixty, Ping Shan brother drink flower wine is just, but do not break the law.”

Cui Jinping teased him again: “The law only prohibits sleeping with prostitutes, but not small herdsmen, why don’t you go next door to Changchunyuan and try it out? It is said that there are all kinds of styles, such as fat and thin, spring orchids and autumn chrysanthemums, so you don’t need to be fooled by an iceberg face. By the way, if you want a cold face, there is also, the flower is called ‘Bamboo in the Jun’, it sounds particularly noble, I think you will like.”

Su Yan nearly took off his boots and smashed him, thinking that such a sparse cargo, how to look at it does not look like a murderer ah.

But what Yun Wash saw last night was indeed suspicious.

What’s the inside story here? Why don’t we go to the forest at the root of the south wall this night, dig the pit where the thing was buried, and see what’s inside?